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Image of CORE taxi boycott bumper sticker, 1964
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CORE taxi boycott bumper sticker, 1964

CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, was founded in Chicago in 1942. It played a key national role in the Civil Rights Movement, launching a variety of actions towards racial equality for African Americans. The Seattle CORE chapter, founded in the late 1950s, grew increasingly active by the early 1960s. Inspired by the sit-in movement and freedom rides in the…
ID Number:2014.9.1
Date:1964
Image of Looking west on Jackson Street during Women's March on Seattle, January 21, 2017
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Looking west on Jackson Street during Women's March on Seattle, January 21, 2017

The Women's March was an international protest for women's rights, held on January 21, 2017, the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump. The marches protested the threat to women's rights represented by Trump's policies and inflammatory rhetoric. Over 470,000 people attended the main protest in Washington DC, as many as 5 million nationwide, and an estimated 7 million people…
ID Number:2014.43.2.4.P151
Date:2017
Image of Crowd at 20th and Jackson during Women's March on Seattle, January 21, 2017
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Crowd at 20th and Jackson during Women's March on Seattle, January 21, 2017

The Women's March was an international protest for women's rights, held on January 21, 2017, the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump. The marches protested the threat to women's rights represented by Trump's policies and inflammatory rhetoric. Over 470,000 people attended the main protest in Washington DC, as many as 5 million nationwide, and an estimated 7 million people…
ID Number:2014.43.2.4.P153
Date:2017
Image of Crowd on 4th Avenue, Women's  March on Seattle, January 21, 2017
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Crowd on 4th Avenue, Women's March on Seattle, January 21, 2017

The Women's March was an international protest for women's rights, held on January 21, 2017, the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump. The marches protested the threat to women's rights represented by Trump's policies and inflammatory rhetoric. Over 470,000 people attended the main protest in Washington DC, as many as 5 million nationwide, and an estimated 7 million people…
ID Number:2014.43.2.4.P157
Date:2017
Image of Crowd on 4th Avenue during Women's March on Seattle, January 21, 2017
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Crowd on 4th Avenue during Women's March on Seattle, January 21, 2017

The Women's March was an international protest for women's rights, held on January 21, 2017, the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump. The marches protested the threat to women's rights represented by Trump's policies and inflammatory rhetoric. Over 470,000 people attended the main protest in Washington DC, as many as 5 million nationwide, and an estimated 7 million people…
ID Number:2014.43.2.4.P158
Date:2017
Image of Protesters at the groundbreaking for Seattle's Kingdome, November 2, 1972
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Protesters at the groundbreaking for Seattle's Kingdome, November 2, 1972

A deputy of the King County Department of Public Safety attempts to confront demonstrators who are protesting the construction of the Kingdome stadium at the western edge of the Chinatown - International District, Seattle's longtime Asian American neighborhood. A lawsuit to stop the stadium had failed, and activists were concerned that its construction and need for more parking would overwhelm…
ID Number:2014.49.Box22.Folder23.001
Date:1972
Image of Protestors at a meeting about Kingdome construction, circa 1972
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Protestors at a meeting about Kingdome construction, circa 1972

Here, a KOMO television news cameraman films a protest meeting at an unidentified office. Asian activists and others fill the room, signs read: "Preserve the International District" and "... a Parking Lot" and "Chinatown. It's not Only A Place to Eat. People Live There Too." This meeting is probably part of the 1972 protest against construction of the Kingdome stadium…
ID Number:2014.49.Box22.Folder23.002
Date:Circa 1972
Image of Larry Gossett entering police van at  protest at the South African consulate, Seattle, December 9, 1984
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Larry Gossett entering police van at protest at the South African consulate, Seattle, December 9, 1984

Beginning in October 1984, demonstrations were held outside the home of the honorary South African consul in Seattle’s Madison Park neighborhood to protest the South African government's polices of racial segregation known as apartheid. In this image, Seattle civil-rights activist and community organizer Larry Gossett, wrists zip tied, steps into a police van. He and 22 others were arrested for…
ID Number:2014.49.033.057.03
Date:1984
Image of Bob Santos entering police van at protest at the South African consulate, Seattle, December 9, 1984
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Bob Santos entering police van at protest at the South African consulate, Seattle, December 9, 1984

Beginning in October 1984, demonstrations were held outside the home of the honorary South African consul in Seattle’s Madison Park neighborhood to protest the South African government's polices of racial segregation known as apartheid. In this image, Seattle civil-rights activist and community organizer Robert (Bob) Santos, wrists zip tied, steps into a police van. He and 22 others were arrested…
ID Number:2014.49.033.057.06
Date:1984
Image of Protesters at the South African consulate, Seattle, December 9, 1984
Photograph

Protesters at the South African consulate, Seattle, December 9, 1984

Beginning in October 1984, demonstrations were held outside the home of the honorary South African consul in Seattle’s Madison Park neighborhood to protest the South African government's polices of racial segregation known as apartheid. When South Africa’s National Party came to power in 1948, the white leadership put extreme laws in place forcing the country’s racial groups to live and…
ID Number:2014.49.033.059.04
Date:1984
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